Trailer: Good Assassins Season 1

A spy story. A detective case. The mission was simple: to arrange the death of one man. The goal was to send a message to all Nazi fugitives around the world: "we can find you and we can kill you." This is the true story of an undercover mission to hunt down a savage Nazi murderer who helped Hitler’s forces kill 30,000 men, women, and children. The survivors gave him a name after the Holocaust: The Butcher of Latvia. The spies would travel halfway around the world to carry out the sentence. The mission wasn’t for one life. It was for 6 million. Listen to “Good Assassins: Season 1” for free. Join the hunt.

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So he's the first part was to find a Nazi
and looking forward trial. The second part was to find
a Nazi and killing. The true story of an Israeli
Spice undercover mission to hunt down a savage Nazi murderer
twenty years after World War Two, Hunting the Butcher. He

(00:23):
had this special characteristic of being able to dive into
the me a person who was supposed to be for
this mission inside Inside Neo held the record for most
of false identities, something like a hundred sixty Over the
course of his career, he could become almost anyone. Herbert

(00:45):
Tookers was a mass murderer. He helped Hitler's forces kill
thirty thousand men, women and children. The survivors gave him
a name after the war, the Butcher of Latvia. The
mission is simple to arrange the death of one man.
It was not a mission for one, It was a

(01:08):
mission for six million. There was another reason for the mission.
It's something that I found almost unbelievable, a part of
history that seems so bizarre to me that it couldn't
have been real. But in Israeli's decided that Herbert Sukers
had to die when he was given the mission, It

(01:29):
was like reopening a book, the unfinished story of his
parents and their fate during the war. There was a
final chapter to be written. Listen to Hunting the Butcher
for free on the I Heart Radio app and wherever
you get your podcasts. Joined the hunt April two,